Hm, it's back up today as if nothing had happened, sure makes me wonder...

Does anyone know what happened to this site? When I go to atlanticgames.net a totally unrelated site appears with no explanation. I played on the site only yesterday!

agentofchaos: Sorry meant to post this in a different discussion board, will repost (been drinking tonight! ;-)

agentofchaos: Oops, forgot to provide the link!
http://www.mindsports.nl/

This is the gaming site of Christian Freeling, the inventor of Grand Chess. The site offers many games, including classic games such as chess and go, as well as many unique games invented by Freeling himself. The main problem with this site at present is the lack of active users!! Finding opponents to actually play some of these interesting games seems to be a slim hope, a real pity as some of the games are offered nowhere else. Enthusiasts of chess variants would enjoy this site *hint hint* ;-)

Here's an interesting variant by the inventor of Racing Kings (Vernon Parton). The rules are described here:
http://www.chessvariants.org/winning.dir/neutral-king.html
Basically, neither player has a king of their own, but there is a neutral king that may be moved by either player. The object of the game is to checkmate the Neutral King and prevent your opponent from doing so. I don't think there are ANY websites that have it! (Although there is a java applet at pathguy.com where you can play against a computer. But there's nowhere you can play against real opponents.) Brainking could have a world first!